i am glad if the support services linked in the osgeo.org website also, to bring "corporate" trust
and a contact, that may be we can link to bring great branding program -- Frans Thamura Meruvian. Experiential Tempation of Java and Enterprise OpenSource Meruvian bukan hanya membuat anak SMK menjadi bisa tapi SAKTI, malah saktinya SAKTI Mandraguna. Mobile: +62 855 7888 699 Blog & Profile: http://frans.thamura.info We provide services to migrate your apps to Java (web), in amazing fast and reliable. 2009/11/25 Venkatesh Raghavan <[email protected]> > Hi All, > > Nice to see responses to the intresting thread started bu > Daniele. > > I think what Daniele is looking for is some kind of > a "How to convince a venture (or social) captitalist > to invest in FOSS4G technnologies and/or companies". > Guess the venture capitalist would be inerested to > see some statistical data on how FOSS4G based companies > are growing elsewhere and what are their core business > stratagies. > > Hope is see some intresting ideas emanating from this > thread. > > Best > > Venka > > Miles Fidelman wrote: > > One more reference: > > > > Wikipedia's history of open source > > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Source_history) has a pretty good > > discussion > > of the early days of software development - when pretty much everything > > was open source, but the term had > > not been coined yet. > > > > Miles > > > > Miles Fidelman wrote: > >> Charlie, > >> > >> Charlie Schweik wrote: > >> > >>> See > >>> > http://www.umass.edu/opensource/schweik/Chapter_2_schweik_final_draft.pdf > >>> > >>> This book still is being finalized and not yet published. If anyone on > >>> this list reads this chapter, I'd appreciate any comments you may have. > >>> If you Daniele, or anyone else uses content from this in some capacity, > >>> I'd appreciate you contacting me so I can give you information on how > to > >>> cite it. > >>> > >>> > >> Since you asked.... :-) > >> > >> A few comments: > >> > >> 1. I seriously question the characterization of open source as > primarily driven by volunteers. > >> History says otherwise. > >> > >> 2. I'd look for some better sources re. monitary support for early open > source projects. > >> If you look a little harder, you'll find that almost all widely-used > open source software > >> started with somebody who was working at a job that paid them to write > an initial > >> code base - be it working on a a government contract or grant, or > working on software > >> as in internal IT staffer. > >> > >> The examples I always point to are: > >> > >> - Apache (started as the NCSA web daemon) > >> > >> - Unix (it all goes back to Bell Labs, with the BSD variations going > back to Berkeley) > >> > >> - Sendmail > >> > >> - Postgres > >> > >> And the list goes on. (One interesting list of very early projects: > http://eu.conecta.it/paper/Some_dates_open_source.html) > >> > >> Yes, a sizeable portion of contributors are volunteers - but some > historical spelunking quickly points out that most projects > >> started with someone who was being paid for their time. (Richard > Stallman might be the exception, though MIT provided > >> for his support in various forms). > >> > >> 3. Historically, the motivations you list as "academic and scientific > motivation #2 and #3" are the earliest and oldest motivations > >> for open source code - dating back to the period when government funded > work automatically entered the public domain (thus > >> predating the entire notion of open source licenses). Almost ALL early > software was funded by the government (notably > >> DARPA and NSF), was shared as academic research, and automatically > entered the public domain. > >> > >> Hope this is useful, > >> > >> Miles Fidelman > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >
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